You Have Been Waiting for the Wrong Thing

Sunday you heard something that probably reorganized the furniture in your head a little. Most of us have spent our whole Christian lives with a vague picture of what we are actually waiting for. Heaven. Peace. Eternity. Something nice. Something spiritual. Something far away from here.

But the prophets were not vague. They were specific. A capital city. A table with real food. Nations stopping their wars. The blind seeing as a matter of course, not as an exception. The knowledge of God covering the earth the way water covers the sea. Not escape from this world but the best possible version of it, under the best possible King.

Here is what that does to Monday morning if you let it. The thing you are building your life around this week is either going to outlast the contractions or it is not. The career, the relationship, the reputation, the bank account, the plan. None of those are wrong. But they are temporary containers for something that needs a permanent foundation.

This week, ask one honest question about what you are currently investing the most energy in. Is it the kind of thing that survives the trumpet? Is it kingdom work or is it something else wearing kingdom clothes?

You are not waiting for an escape. You are waiting for a King. Build like it.